Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.

I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.